Obama wants change ... change to
what?
The nationwide exposure of Reverend
Jeremiah Wrights church rantings
provides startling insight into the kind
of challenges facing this countrys
progress toward better race
relations.
It was indeed an eye-opener for most
Americans to learn about the lies, racial
slurs and divisiveness being preached to
some black congregations. The
Reverend Wright carries a message of hate
toward white people, and self-pity to the
black community a formula that is
guaranteed to produce irreconcilable
differences and ever-widening divisions
between the races. His now famous
exhortation, God Damn
America, leaves no doubt about what
he thinks about his country.
Both Barack Obama and the Reverend Wright
are eloquent public speakers with wide
followings. All the more reason to
temper rhetoric with truth, honesty and
good will toward fellow citizens.
It is clear that the Reverend Wright has
been Obamas mentor for at least 20
years.
Obamas denial and rejection of the
Reverends sentiments, and then of
the Reverend himself, at this late date,
rings hollow. Too little, too late. The
Reverend Wright dismisses Senator
Obamas responses as political
calculations. Perhaps here,
the good Reverend is not far off the
mark.
How deep beneath the smooth and polished
veneer of hope and change lie
Obamas true feelings? Like his
pastor, does he harbor a deep grudge
against America? Has he been shielding us
from his very negative personal feelings
about his country?
Obamas earlier gaffe about working
class people in Pennsylvania they
cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who arent like
them... provides yet another
window into his thinking. As time
passes during this election campaign, the
real Barack Obama is beginning to emerge
as much through his words as
through the company he has kept.
His wifes remark that now was the
only time in her adult life she was proud
of her country begs the question
How did she feel about her country during
the rest of her adult life?
Michelle Obamas senior thesis at
Princeton, titled
Princeton-Educated Blacks and the
Black Community, provides insight
into her thinking as she describes the
students world from a racial
perspective.
She examined the effects of a
Princeton education on
Blacks. In her conclusion,
Michelle Obama seems distressed to find
that Black Princeton students tend toward
increased integration into the mainstream
of white society after their Princeton
experience. The tenor of her entire
thesis supports separation rather than
integration as a preferred pathway for
the Black community.
Senator and Mrs. Obama need to better
explain their persistent calls for hope
and change. Change to what?
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